Burbage Primary School
General Information
- Address: Blackmans Lane, Off Ailesbury Way, Marlborough, SN8 3TP – View on map
- Phone: 01672810452
- Website: Visit school website
- Headteacher: Mrs Zoe Garbutt
- Age range: 2-11 years
- Demand for places (Reception, September 2026): 27 families put it first for 27 places – 10 for every 10 places. Every one of them was offered a place. No places went to families living outside the council area. Children putting it first, for every 10 places: 2023 10 · 2024 10 · 2025 9 · 2026 10
- Sixth form: No
- Intake: Mixed
- Religious character: Does not apply
- Nursery provision: Yes
Who goes here
- Pupils eligible for free school meals: 15
- % eligible for free school meals: 7.3%
- Pupil mix: 1 in 10 (less mixed than the Wiltshire average)
- English as an additional language: 1% (England 22%)
Staff
Teachers leaving each year
- Teacher turnover: 2.5% a year (Wiltshire 17.3%, typical in England 13.9%)
- Where they went: about 0% moved to another school, 100% left state schools altogether (retirement, other careers, independent schools, abroad)
- Data years: 2022/23 to 2024/25 (average of 3 years, DfE school workforce census)
Teachers who moved school or left state schools in the year after each November, as a share of all the school's teachers. Some turnover is healthy – retirements, promotions, moving house. This is a small staff, so one or two teachers leaving moves the figure a lot.
Behaviour
Awaiting Data
Across Wiltshire: suspensions by reason
- Suspensions for sexual misconduct: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Permanent exclusions for sexual misconduct: 0
- Suspensions for bullying: 6 (0.2 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.2)
- Suspensions for abuse against sexual orientation or gender identity: 2 (0.1 per 1,000 pupils; England 0.0)
- Data year: 2024/25 (DfE suspensions and exclusions statistics)
These are figures for all state primary schools in Wiltshire, not this school's own – the government doesn't publish them school by school. A suspension can have up to three reasons. Most sexual harassment between pupils never leads to a suspension, so these figures show only part of the picture.
Attendance
- Overall absence: 3.1%
- Persistently absent pupils: 3.1%
- Data year: 2024/25
SEN
No dedicated Unit or Resourced Provision
- Pupils on SEN Support: 17.2%
- Pupils with an EHC Plan: 4.3%
- Data year: 2025/26
Most common needs - SEN Support
- Social, emotional and mental health: 12 pupils
- SEN support but no specialist assessment of type of need: 10 pupils
- Speech, language and communications needs: 7 pupils
- Specific learning difficulty: 3 pupils
- Moderate learning difficulty: 2 pupils
Most common needs - EHC Plan
- Speech, language and communications needs: 4 pupils
- Autistic spectrum disorder: 3 pupils
- Social, emotional and mental health: 2 pupils
These figures show the makeup of the school.
Educational Attainment
Ofsted report card February 2026
Ofsted's new report cards grade each part of school life separately, instead of giving one overall word.
- Safeguarding Met
- Inclusion Strong standard
- Curriculum and teaching Strong standard
- Achievement Strong standard
- Attendance and behaviour Strong standard
- Personal development and wellbeing Strong standard
- Early years Strong standard
- Leadership and governance Strong standard
Before this, under the old system, Ofsted rated the school Good (2021). The report card above replaces that grade.
Year 6 SATs results
- Met the expected standard in reading, writing & maths: 73% (England 62%)
- Reached the higher standard: 9% (England 8%)
- Compared with the area: 14 percentage points above the Wiltshire average (59%)
- Compared with schools with similar pupils: As expected (3-year average 66% against an expected 64%)
- 3-year average (expected standard): 66%
- Expected standard by subject: Reading 82% · Writing 82% · Maths 91% · Grammar, punctuation & spelling 82%
- Average test scores: reading 106, maths 106
- Based on: 22 Year 6 pupils, 2024/25
View the School Context Comparator – how this school's SATs results compare with schools teaching similar pupils.
SATs results over time
Year 6 SATs: joint 31st of 174 junior and primary schools in the area
- =31Box Church of England Primary School73%
- =31Bulford St Leonard's C of E (VA) Primary School73%
- =31Burbage Primary School73%
- =31Sherston CofE Primary School73%
- =31St Katharine's CofE Primary School73%
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Financials
Spending per pupil: £6,440 (2024-25)
112th of 184 primary schools in Wiltshire for spending per pupil
- #110St Mary's Church of England Primary School & Nursery, Purton£6,464
- #111Sambourne Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School£6,441
- #112Burbage Primary School£6,440
- #113The Mead Community Primary School£6,433
- #114Lea and Garsdon Church of England Primary School£6,387
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